Andries Treurnicht
Andries Petrus Treurnicht [ trəørnəxt ] ( born February 19, 1921 in Piketberg, Cape Province, † April 22, 1993 in Cape Town) was a South African politician and author.
Life
At the University of Stellenbosch, he earned a master's degree in theology. He was then a PhD at the University of Cape Town in political philosophy. He was from 1946 for the Dutch Reformed Church 14 years pastor in various churches and was elected deputy chairman of the national synod. In 1949 he married Engela Dreyer. 1960 Treurnicht began a career as a journalist. He was editor of The Kerkbode - the magazine of the Dutch Reformed Church - and Hoofstad.
1970 Treurnicht politicians. In the wake of the parliamentary elections in 1971, he was elected for the ruling National Party MP for the constituency Waterberg. From 1972 to 1974 he was chairman of the influential secret society Broederbond. In 1976 he was appointed Deputy Minister of Education. He issued the directive that for black students half of the lesson was to be held in Afrikaans. This resulted from 16 June 1976 Soweto uprising with hundreds of dead students. Because of his uncompromising attitude is also called him " Dr. No ". In 1978 he was appointed leader of the former Transvaal province, from 1979 he was Minister for the Civil Service, Statistics and Tourism and a year later Minister of Public Administration and statistics.
On March 20, 1982 left Treurnicht and another 22 MPs the National Party and founded the Conservative Party ( CP or CP). The parliamentarians wanted thus demonstrating their opposition to the government policy, which had slightly loosened the rules of apartheid with the formation of influential poor parliaments for Coloureds and " Indian". The CP accused the government of wanting to share power with the other population groups. Treurnicht was elected chairman. In the parliamentary elections in 1987, the CP won 550,000 votes of the white electorate, especially of Afrikaans - speakers, and surpassed with 22 seats for the first time the liberal Progressive Federal Party (PFP ), so that Treurnicht opposition leader was. In the early parliamentary elections of 1989 his party received approximately 31.5 % of the vote and 41 of 178 seats. In 1992, Treurnicht to a campaign against a referendum the National Party, which was to achieve the consent of whites to negotiate an end to apartheid. Nearly one million white South Africans, especially Buren, voted " No", but voted about two million for the referendum.
In 1993, the senior CP- member Clive Derby - Lewis was convicted of having organized at the behest of the CP leadership, the murder plot against the ANC politician Chris Hani. Treurnicht died shortly thereafter during heart surgery. His successor as the second and final party chairman of the CP was Ferdinand Hartz Mountain.
Literary work
Treurnicht wrote 16 books, mainly on cultural issues. In it he shows himself a radical advocate of apartheid, for example in his book published in 1975 Credo van ' n Africans, in which he claimed, among other things, that racial segregation in South Africa in 1652, the year of the arrival of white settlers, had been introduced.